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Originally Posted by
Nevets
You forgot the part about Skywest negotiating a CPA with cal with 16% concession from the XJT pilots in order to bring them down to parity with Skywest pilots and help cause XJT to become unprofitable. XJT's losses after 9/08 are directly attributable to that. Skywest broke it and now they paid for it.
And yet your Mgmt. team came back and lowballed Jerry's offer, then ran for the hills. Fact is my W2's are equal to or greater than 2 of my friends who are line holding CA's at L-XJT with roughly equal seniority to mine in domicile. The difference is my pay is linked more to my production which is what make us more efficient. You may refuse to believe this but as subcontractors you cannot have contracts heavy on soft time. Yes we all would love to get paid to not work but it drives up cost in an industry held down by mainline. Something has to give, if you go heavy on soft time your payrates will suffer, if your payrates climb higher you’ll have less soft time. We at SkyWest have found a balance. My advice which you 10%ers over there won't take, find your balance before you sink your ship and if you're willing to sink your ship you're bigger fools than I had originally imagined. Remember that Jerry won't allow you to bring the company down so if you don't work it out you'll deserve what you get. I just feel sorry for the 90% you're going to bring down with you.
Since a large portion, boarding a majority these days, of SkyWest pilots have come from other union airlines have you ever stopped to wonder why there hasn’t been another union drive at SkyWest in over 7 years? Also look around these boards at all the disgruntled pilots on here, how many are form SkyWest. There’s your answer, but since it contradicts everything you all are arguing you’ll never concede the facts.
So keep on keeping on; continue to bash us and call us whatever your little minds can fathom up but remember this, we’re happy and in life that’s far more important than a few $ more per hour. In my almost 8 years at SkyWest I’ve never raised by voice to crew support and I’ve never felt I was being treated unfairly. My wife has some very serious medical issues and when I need to be there for her there are no questions asked and it doesn’t count against my reliability. They’ve even positive spaced me a few times when I needed to get home ASAP. Everyone here will tell you your family comes first, PERIOD! The times I've explained in detail to my friends at RAH, L-XJT, L-ASA, AE, 9E and GoJet about how SkyWest operates they’re dumb founded at why their airline is incapable to doing the same. I am very thankful for SkyWest and their willingness to help their employees in any way they can (within reason) but they expect a return on their generosity. So every day when I show up to work I give my company 110%, I take care of our customers and I take care of our customers customers.
Last edited by MatchPoint; 07-07-2013 at 08:34 AM.